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Ruling Elites.Indb António Costa Pinto is a professor Dictators do not rule alone, and a governing elite stratum is always ANTÓNIO COSTA PINTO After the so-called ‘third wave’ of de- of politics and contemporary Euro- formed below them. This book explores an underdeveloped area in the study ANTÓNIO COSTA PINTO mocratisation at the end of the 20th pean history at the Institute of Social of fascism: the structure of power. The old and rich tradition of elite studies Edited by century had significantly increased the Sciences, University of Lisbon. He has can tell us much about the structure and operation of political power in the number of democracies in the world, been a visiting professor at Stanford dictatorships associated with fascism, whether through the characterisation of the survival of many dictatorships has University (1993) Georgetown Uni- had an important impact. Taking as the modes of political elite recruitment, or by the type of leadership, and the versity (2004), a senior associate mem- starting point the dictatorships that ber at St Antony’s College, Oxford relative power of the political institutions in the new dictatorial system. emerged since the beginning of the University (1995) and a senior visiting Analyzing four dictatorships associated with fascism (Fascist Italy, Nazi 20th century, but mainly those that fellow at Princeton University (1996) Germany, Salazar’s Portugal and Franco’s Spain), the book investigates the were institutionalised after 1945, the and at the University of California, dictator-cabinet-single party triad from a comparative perspective. social science literature has retur- Berkeley (2000). His research interests ned to the big question concerning include fascism and authoritarianism, factors that led to the survival and democratisation and transitional justi- Contributors: downfall of the dictatorships and dic- ce in new democracies, the European Goffredo Adinolfi, Lisbon University Institute – ISCTE tators, and which the fascist regimes Union and the comparative study of Rita Almeida de Carvalho, New University of Lisbon RULING ELITES AND DECISION-MAKING did not escape: the regimes’ capacity political change in Europe. He is the to distribute resources; divisions wi- Nuno Estevão Ferreira, University of Lisbon IN FASCIST-ERA DICTATORSHIPS author of The Blue Shirts: Portuguese thin the power coalitions; the political Fascism in Inter-war Europe (2000), and Ana Mónica Fonseca, Lisbon University Institute – ISCTE institutions of the dictatorships, and co-editor of Who Governs Southern Aristotle Kallis, Lancaster University the cost-benefit analysis of rebellion. Europe? Regime Change and Ministe- Miguel Jerez Mir, University of Granada rial Recruitment (London: Routledge, Didier Musiedlak, University of Paris Oest, Nanterre This book explores an underdevelo- 2003) (edited with Pedro Tavares de António Costa Pinto, University of Lisbon ped area in the study of fascism: the Almeida and Nancy Bermeo); and Filipa Raimundo, European University Institute, Florence structure of power. The old and rich Charisma and Fascism in Inter-war Eu- tradition of elite studies can tell us rope (London: Routledge, 2006) (edi- much about the structure and opera- ted with Roger Eatwell and Stein U. tion of political power in the dictator- Larsen). ships associated with fascism, whether through the characterisation of the ISBN 978-0-88033-656-7 modes of political elite recruitment, or by the type of leadership, and the relative power of the political institu- RULING ELITES tions in the new dictatorial system. For information on books of related interest, or for a catalogue, 9 780880 336567 please write to: Order Department AND DECISION-MAKING Columbia University Press, For a note on the editor, 136 South Broadway, Irvington, Please see the back flap. New York 10533. SOCIAL SCIENCE MONOGRAPHS IN FASCIST-ERA To order by phone call: (800) 944-8648 or (914) 591-9111. Distributed by Columbia University Press Jacket illustration: Monica Correia SSM www.cup.columbia.edu/ www.cup.columbia.edu/ DICTATORSHIPS SOCIAL SCIENCE MONOGRAPHS Design by Joaquim António Silva Capa.indd 1 09/10/04 18:14:58 António Costa Pinto Edited by RULING ELITES AND DECISION-MAKING IN FASCIST-ERA DICTATORSHIPS SOCIAL SCIENCE MONOGRAPHS, BOULDER DISTRIBUTED BY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS, NEW YORK 2009 Copyright by António Costa Pinto ISBN 978-0-88033-656-7 Library of Congress Control Number 2009927610 Printed in the United States of America Contents Acknowledgements ix List of Tables and Figures xi Introduction: Political elites and decision-making in fascist-era dictatorships xv António Costa Pinto 1. Mussolini, charisma and decision-making 1 Didier Musiedlak 2. Political elite and decision-making in Mussolini’s Italy 19 Goffredo Adinolfi 3. Ministers and centres of power in Nazi Germany 55 Ana Mónica Fonseca 4. Nazi propaganda decision-making: the hybrid of ‘modernity’ and ‘neo-feudalism’ in Nazi wartime propaganda 83 Aristotle Kallis 5. The ‘empire of the professor’: Salazar’s ministerial elite, 1932–44 119 Nuno Estêvão Ferreira, Rita Almeida de Carvalho, António Costa Pinto 6. Political decision-making in the Portuguese New State (1933–9): The dictator, the council of ministers and the inner-circle 137 Filipa Raimundo, Nuno Estêvão Ferreira, Rita Almeida de Carvalho 7. Executive, single party and ministers in Franco’s regime, 1936–45 165 Miguel Jerez Mir 8. Single party, cabinet and political decision-making in fascist era dictatorships: Comparative perspectives 215 António Costa Pinto Contributors 253 Index 257 Executive, single party and 7 ministers in Franco’s regime 1936-45 Miguel Jerez Mir Serrano [Suñer] and Franco, together, taking in the spring air in a Salamanca that was peaceful despite the war being near at hand, spoke of the possible future for Spain. Perhaps it would be better to say that Serrano spoke while Franco listened. He listened closely to what Serrano was saying. Of new Spain, of the empire and the Catholic monarchs, of the yokes and the arrows of a powerful Spain, of the Caesar Carlos: glorious names. Of heroism, and everything was now possible…The empire was made by and ruled over by the predestined. (Ramirez 1964: 245). I would have appointed a Falangist style homogeneous ministry. However, the entire monarchist branch immediately stood up to oppose it, and then everyone was against it: the Falange as much as any other. It was then that I decided to divide the portfolios between those who had ideas similar to the sectors that had contributed to the National Movement. (Salgado-Araujo 1977: 208) Introduction Unlike Nazi Germany and Mussolini’s Italy, which were undoubt- edly of a fascist nature, in Franco’s Spain, as in Salazar’s Portugal, the issue is more controversial, even for the years prior to the defeat of the Axis. Naturally, this affirmation is only true if that concept is intend- The question of the nature of the Franco regime has been the subject of several debates, largely as a reaction to Juan J. Linz’s decision to categorise it as an authori- tarian regime (1964; 1974). There is no shortage of historians who by the early 1990s had begun to argue that the subject was ‘depleted’ (Aróstegui 1992: 90), or that the 166 Ruling Elites ed to refer to a specific type of regime that contains a series of well- defined characteristics; on the contrary, if used in a broader sense, it could include all those right-wing authoritarian movements headed by a single leader sympathetic towards some aspects of this ideology and adopted their paraphernalia (Malefakis 2000: 30-9). Whatever the approach taken, there are two issues that allow lit- tle controversy. The first is that, regardless of its later authoritarianism, the Franco regime had strong totalitarian tendencies from its begin- nings until at least the end of the Second World War, and certainly until 1942 (Ramírez 1978: 23-5; Linz 1964; 2000; Linz and Jerez Mir 2003). The second is that a large part of this totalitarianism was fascist inspired, largely consistent with the rise of this ideology in Europe at that time and with the decisive German and Italian contribution to the uprising of an important segment of the Spanish army against the government of the Second Republic and the instauration of the Franco regime and, on the other hand, with the addition of the Fa- lange Española Tradicionalista y de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional- Sindicalista (FET-JONS)—both before and after unification—to the war effort, particularly in the rear and with the construction of the regime both ideologically and in the provision of political personnel at the different levels of the new state. Some of the unique elements of the Spanish case need highlight- ing. Franco’s regime and its official single party, FET-JONS, originat- ed in a civil war (1936-9) that was to have important consequences for both (Linz 1970: 133-4), given the fact the evolution and the result of dispute was almost entirely a debate on terms that had become ‘sterile, at least as a tool for advancing real knowledge’ (Tusell 1988; 1993). For a summary of the different positions, see Pérez Ledesma (1994); for more recent historiographic revisions, see Sánchez Recio (1999) and Saz Campos (2004: 245-54). According to Stanley Payne, between 1931 and 1945 Franco’s regime was ‘at least doctrinally, semi-fascist.’ He argues that the fascist nature of the state’s single-party state, FET was only mitigated by its confessional nature that ‘explicitly embraced syn- cretism and Franco from the beginning.’ Instead, he argues that the regime ‘was never, and never had any intention of becoming structurally totalitarian,’ although in the beginning it absorbed ‘many elements of fascist doctrine through the incorporation of the Falange and its programme’ (Payne 1987: 657). Executive, single party and ministers in Franco’s regime 1936-45 167 this had much to do with the military aid the rebels received from the two Axis powers.
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